Tasmantis

Zealandia.

Proper noun

  1. Zealandia.
    • Our results support the hypothesis that skinks colonized Tasmantis by over-water dispersal initially to New Caledonia, then to Lord Howe Island, and finally to New Zealand. - 2007, Smith, S.A., Sadlier, R.A., Bauer,...

Origin

Likely from Tasman, with a suffix rebracketed from Atlantic or even Atlantis; coined in 1919 by geologists Carl Süssmilch and Edgeworth David